CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 64, 27 November 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PER UNITED PRKS-? ASSOCIATION | London. November 24 The Government hnve decided to prosecute Messrs J O'Connor, member for Tir?<-'rary S»u'h ; J. Finucane, Lune rick South; Divid Sheehy, Galvray South ; Thomas Mayne. Tipperary Mid ; Thomas J. Condon, Tipperary East; P. J. O Brien, Tipperary North; and Dr Tanner, •"ork Mid, on a charge of intirai dating the occupiers of evicted farms. A farmer at E>rry has been murdered. Tbe police are inquiring into the matter, but as jet no arrests have been made The Rey Mr McLeod, of Birkenhead, has been elected Moderator»eleet of the English Pre»byterian Synod. Mr Goschen has agreed to exclude Scotland from the operation of the State wheel tax. Parnell's proposal to allow the Land Commission to remit the arrears in rent of the Irish tenantry has been negatived. Mr Gladstone will spend the winter in Italy. The Standard, in referring to the speech of Sir Henry Parkes in the New South Wales Parliament, respecting the appointment of colonial Governors, says it ia worthy the dignity of the position and the importance of the subject to convey adm >nition in respectful and unirritating lanuuage. The requests of New South Wales and South Australia were so temperate that it must be maintained that the Colonial Office ought privately to ascertain tbe opinion of the colony on gentlemen to be appointed. The pr< specius of the Black's Gold Mining Company of Otago. with a oapital of i' 60,000, has been issued. A cargo of wheat by the barque Largo Bay, from Lyttelton, has been sold ai 39* 9d. The banks are largely reducing the open mnrket for money by purchases on stock. Msjor-General Donnor considers that the » trength of the Egyptian army should be raised to 16,000. They could then rei ere Suakim and capture Handoub. Tamas, and Tokar, advance on Dongola. md pacify the Soudan. Mr John Bright is in a very critical condition, and his medical advisers report there is little hope of hia recovery. November 25. Lord Hartington in the course of a powerful speech at Haslmgden, -justified the position of the Unionists who enabled Government to legislate for the general good of the country New Zealand hemp L3l 15s to L3 *.. Rio de Janeibo, November 23 The R M.S. Tongariro, from New Zealand arrived here yesterday. Her passen gers were all in good health, and her cargo of frozen meat was in good con dition. She sailed again for Plymouth to-day. Suakim, November 23. Major-General Greenfell, with 2000 fneadiy biseks and a force of 1000 Egyptians, will shortly assume an offen ' sive attitude against Osman Digna. None of the English troops take part in th<sortie. The rebels are mustering in great force, and in Suakim the position is re* garded as most critical. Pa his, November 24 It is reported that M. Floquet ha< ordered the arrpst of fifty followers of General Boulanger and the reactionary leaders on a charge of intriguing against the State. The rumour is creating great excitement in tiie city. General Boulanger and Count Cavairnac profeis t<> believe the report, while tbe Government press ridicule it. Viknjta, November 24. Theie is conisderable excitement among the Protestants owing to the Hungarian Convention of the Reformed Churches passing resolutions to the effect that clergymen should preserve celibacy. It is feared that a general disunion will follow. The Austrian Army Bill has been agreed to.